Illinois adoptive couple Craig and Courtney were blessed to adopt a baby girl through Lifetime’s Florida Adoption Agency just a few weeks ago! Here’s sweet email that they recently sent to our staff about their open adoption relationship with their daughter’s birth mother:
“From the day we signed our contract with Lifetime we started praying for two people, our future child and also the birth mom (or birth family) that would forever be a part of our lives. To us, adoption was more than just starting our family with a baby, it was starting our family by welcoming a whole other family into ours.
We are so lucky to have such a special bond with our daughter’s birth mom. Since spending four days together in the hospital, we have struggled to find the right words to describe how amazing she really is. From meeting her in the parking lot, to Courtney hugging her head and cheering her on during the c-section, to taking those last steps together out of the hospital and feeling like we weren’t ready to leave her, we have fallen more and more in love with her each step of the way. Today we can honestly say we love her just as much as we love our baby girl!”
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Kyla and Trinity were born at 35 weeks so they were kept in NICU. The staff at the hospital was nothing short of tremendous. We weren’t the adoptive parents, we were THE parents. They were extremely respectful of us and very protective of us once birth mom signed the surrender papers. Some of the nurses offered to help us at the airport once we were ICPC cleared. The entire experience at the hospital was great!
The year has just flown by…we still can’t believe how much this little boy has overcome and accomplished. He is into everything, loves to belly laugh, and is best friends with Hannah. The first thing they do when waking up is to find each other and share hugs in the morning. She refers to him as her “little buddy Win-con.”
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Thanksgiving was such a special day for us. Looking over at Brynlee in her high chair at the dinner table was such a dream come true. We have so much to be thankful for, every day is Thanksgiving in our home!
“Thank you so much for helping us on this journey! We couldn’t love Jack any more than we do! He’s the best baby we could have hoped for. Once you’re matched and you meet your child, it still takes you a little while to process all the things that had to fall into place to make this miracle happen.
I’ll never forget the call I got from my wife when we initially got matched. I’ll never, ever forget driving all night to meet my wife, who had flown ahead to be with our son, and cradling him in my arms for the first time at 4:30 in the morning. I’ve never been happier at that time in the morning. Those moments make every single struggle you’ve had to endure on this journey disappear in a blink. I promise.
